Oh Luuuuuucy, this campaign season means sooooo much 'splainin'.... It's all very interesting, isn't it?

Inside Today's Bulletin
Liberal Women's Group Throws Support To Area Candidates
By: Bradley Vasoli, The Bulletin
03/21/2008

The Pennsylvania Women's Campaign Fund (PWCF), a group advocating the election of socially liberal women candidates to state office, has endorsed several individuals running in the Philadelphia area.

State Reps. Barbara McIlvaine Smith (D-Chester), Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia), Kathy Manderino (D-Philadelphia), Rosita Youngblood (D-Philadelphia) and Cherelle Parker (D-Philadelphia) have all gotten PWCF's nod.

State Senate candidate Anne Dicker, a Democrat running in a hotly contested primary for retiring Philadelphia Democrat Vince Fumo's seat, has also received PWCF's backing, as has Republican Lisa Paolino, a Republican running in a primary against Lance Rogers for the seat of retiring state Sen. Connie Williams (D-Montgomery).

Issues of importance to PWCF include support for abortion, gay rights, the right to equal pay and safeguards against sexual harassment.

"[Our objective] is to have more women in Pennsylvania's legislature who will represent and be concerned about women of all ages, races and ethnic groups," Letty Thaull, PWCF vice president for southeastern Pennsylvania, told The Bulletin.

This is the website for The Pennsylvania Women's Campaign Fund: www.pawcf.com
Click here for the list of endorsed candidates

The candidates fill out a package of stuff (click here ), which is described by this group in part:

If you are a female pro-choice candidate running for the State Legislature in 2008, you can seek an endorsement, and potential campaign resources, from PWCF.

Congratulations on your decision to seek election to Pennsylvania's General Assembly!

The Pennsylvania Women's Campaign Fund is a multi-partisan organization established in 1982 to provide assistance to progressive women candidates for the state legislature. Since its inception, the PWCF has distributed more than $100,000 to women candidates throughout Pennsylvania.

To qualify for endorsement or financial and/or technical assistance from the Pennsylvania Women's Campaign Fund, women candidates are expected to espouse the progressive position on issues affecting the quality of life and human needs, a demonstrated commitment to building a more just society, and sensitive recognition of the concerns of women in the process of social change.

LOL, this endorsement didn't warrant a press release just yet, but this did - can't you just hear the trumpets heralding this?

And hey now, that's some letter Ken Davis wrote to MLT and MLL, huh? What are we talkin' 'bout Luuuuuuucy?

This:
Posted on Wed, Mar 26, 2008
Letters
Disagrees with Paolino's view of endorsement process

As chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Committee, and on behalf of all its men and women from our county who are elected to serve on it, I take great exception to Lisa Paolino's account of the endorsement process in which we gave our overwhelming support to Lance Rogers in the 17th Senatorial District. Her version is at great variance with those who actually participated in the endorsement. She did not.

In last week's news article, Ms. Paolino said that the endorsement was not "legitimate," since committeepeople in Haverford and Radnor townships were subject to "exclusion." Here are the facts. First, other than in her own Radnor Township, she has no support from the Delaware County Republican Committee, or any of its state legislators (including Delaware County's own Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, a supporter of Lance Rogers) with whom she seeks to serve in Harrisburg. Her own Delaware County Committee did not even consider her candidacy....Second, Delaware County's Republican Chairman specifically requested that Ms. Paolino and the committeepeople from his two townships not be invited to the Montgomery County endorsement meeting since their County operates under a very different endorsement process than that of Montgomery.....Finally, Montgomery County's endorsement meeting was conducted openly and fairly by me, and the secret ballot vote taken that evening accurately reflected the will of the committeepeople. No one even offered a motion to nominate Ms. Paolino, a clear indication that her candidacy lacked any support among the Republican Party workers whose job it is to pick the best candidate. Her only opening to secure the nomination is to attack the process

And Luuuuuucy? Better read this too:

Don't lose Wayne's charm
By Deede Formichella